Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
Fundamentals and Applications
- 1st Edition - November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Carlos M. Costa, Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 6 0 6 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 6 0 7 - 2
Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Applications explores the current landscape of BDS in detail, with a focus on techniques, analytical tools, devices, and materi… Read more
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Request a sales quoteBroadband Dielectric Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Applications explores the current landscape of BDS in detail, with a focus on techniques, analytical tools, devices, and materials, leading to a critical and pedagogical overview of the field. This book covers both the theory and fundamentals of BDS, as well as the most recent advances in the field with a specific focus on is its application within advanced materials. Sections I provides a strong theoretical background and foundational overview, as well as explaining how experimental tests can be conducted, discussing the methods of analysing data via various formalisms, detailed methods, and example case studies. The book then builds on this overview by exploring the ways in which BDS intersects with and can be used in conjunction other analytical and spectroscopic techniques. Sections II and III build on this theoretical knowledge to delve into the real-world applications of BDS across scientific disciplines and industries. Section IV explores a wide array of materials, exploring how BDS can be used in cutting edge ways on some of the most important materials used in chemical and material science research, such as: solution materials, polymers, hybrid polymers and nanocomposites, ionic liquids, and active dielectrics. This section covers the ways in which BDS can be used within these fabrication, quality control and sensing and monitoring of processes in these materials. Finally, given that BDS is a potent experimental tool that can be utilized by many researchers in myriad distinct fields of science, Section V of this book uses case studies and detailed methods and protocols to explore examples of how it can be used across various industries to great effect. This book guides the reader through formalism of BDS through to applications in different materials and will make an excellent resource for students (both upper undergraduate and postgraduate), researchers and engineers looking to work with this technique, primarily materials chemists, analytical chemists, materials scientists, physicists, and physical chemists working with BDS or working on advanced materials, dielectric materials, materials for electronics and in the area of dielectric relaxation processes for advanced applications. Given that this book also focuses on the intersections between BDS and other correlated analytical methods across industries, it will also be of great interest to engineers in the fields of polymers, composites, ceramics, electronic communications, and energy industries working on dielectrics and related materials and applications.
- This book Provides a strong theoretical background to the techniques of Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS), detailing the current landscape with a focus on materials, devices and techniques and analytical tools to provide a critical overview of the field
- Emphasizes recent advances in BDS, with a specific focus on applications within advanced materials across industries for many innovative advances in technological applications
- Outlines detailed methods-based protocols and case studies for the applications of BDS focusing on materials processing, properties and molecular dynamics that will provide valuable insights across research fields and industries
Students (both upper undergraduate and postgraduate), researchers and engineers looking to work with this technique, primarily materials chemists, analytical chemists, materials scientists, physicists, and physical chemists working with BDS or working on advanced materials, dielectric materials, materials for electronics and in the area of dielectric relaxation processes for advanced applications
Section I. Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy – Fundamentals and Theory
1. Theory of Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
2. Equipment, parameters and formalism
3. Correlation between Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and other techniques
Section II. Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy of different materials
4. Theory of Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
5. Equipment, Parameters and formalism
6. Correlation between Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and other techniques
7. Ceramic materials
8. Solution materials
9. Polymer processing
10. Polymer systems: synthetic and natural
11. Polymer confinement
12. Hybrid polymer materials: conductive and ceramic fillers (nanocomposites)
13. Polymer blends with ionic liquids
14. Disordered systems
15. Active dielectrics (piezoelectrics, ferroelectrics, pyroelectrics)
16. Electrorheology materials
Section III. Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy application areas
17. Sensors and actuator devices
18. Electronic systems
19. Agriculture/food field
20. Biotechnological field
21. Biomedical field
22. Water containing materials
23. Energy systems
Section VI. Outlook and conclusions
1. Theory of Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
2. Equipment, parameters and formalism
3. Correlation between Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and other techniques
Section II. Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy of different materials
4. Theory of Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
5. Equipment, Parameters and formalism
6. Correlation between Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and other techniques
7. Ceramic materials
8. Solution materials
9. Polymer processing
10. Polymer systems: synthetic and natural
11. Polymer confinement
12. Hybrid polymer materials: conductive and ceramic fillers (nanocomposites)
13. Polymer blends with ionic liquids
14. Disordered systems
15. Active dielectrics (piezoelectrics, ferroelectrics, pyroelectrics)
16. Electrorheology materials
Section III. Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy application areas
17. Sensors and actuator devices
18. Electronic systems
19. Agriculture/food field
20. Biotechnological field
21. Biomedical field
22. Water containing materials
23. Energy systems
Section VI. Outlook and conclusions
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 460
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443266065
- eBook ISBN: 9780443266072
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Carlos M. Costa
Carlos M. Costa is an Assistant Researcher at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. His work is focused on the development electroactive polymer based porous membranes, anode and cathode material for energy storage applications in lithium-ion batteries and printed batteries. He has also experience in the processing, characterization, and optimization of sustainable polymers and polymer nanocomposites for sensors and actuators.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Researcher, University of Minho, Braga, PortugalSL
Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez
Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez is Research Professor and Scientific Director at the Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Leioa, Spain. His work is focused in the area of polymer-based smart materials for sensors and actuators, energy, and biomedical applications.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Professor and Scientific Director, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Leioa, Spain